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FINAL SCRIPT FOR STORYBOARDS/DESIGN
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31st December 2007.
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STONE AGE
"Dino Diner Rush"
by
Laurie Israel & Rachel Ruderman
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Story Editor
Rick Ungar
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PRODUCTION
NUMBER SA09
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ADDITIONAL DIALOGUE TAKES - TO DECIDE WHICH TO
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USE:
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DIAL 17 = 2 TAKES
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FADE IN:
INT. WOOLEY MAMMOTH RESTAURANT - AFTERNOON
T-BONE, STELLA,NEDDY, CAMMY and BILLY are in
their favorite booth at WOOLEY’s.
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T-BONE looks contented and happy as he slurps
down a brown colored milk shake.
T-BONE
1
<SLURP> Man, I love Fridays. No school for two
whole days!
STELLA reaches over to the jukebox on the wall
of the booth. She puts a couple of pebbles in
the coin slot and pushes B3.
STELLA
2
How ‘bout a little music to get the weekend
started.
INSIDE THE JUKEBOX a heron-like bird takes a
rocky looking CD out of a slot and inserts it
into a rocky stone age CD player. <Music
plays.>
BACK at the booth.
NEDDY
3
Neddy hungry. Where Wooley?
WOOLEY arrives at the booth.
WOOLEY
4
Right here. What’ll it be today, kids?
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T-BONE
5
(scanning menu)
Hmmm...oooh how ‘bout some fried dragonflies.
Say eight orders?
WOOLEY
6
(amazed)
<gasp> Eight orders?
CAMMY
7
You’re right. Better make it nine.
WOOLEY rolls his eyes.
T-BONE
8
And throw in some seaweed shakes, oooh
perodactyli puffs, deep fried bird beaks..Hoooh, and some chocolate covered maggots.
WOOLEY does a take in total disbelief.
T-BONE
9
What? My mom won’t have dinner ready for two
more hours. You don’t want me to starve to
death do you?
WOOLEY
10
(sarcastic)
Yeah. We wouldn’t want that.
Wooley heads off to the kitchen with their
order.
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WOOLEY
11
I dunno where they put it.
On the booth.
T-BONE
12
So everyone ready for the game against the
Stone Pile Sludge Buckets tomorrow?
STELLA
13
We win this one and we’re in the play-offs for
sure.
Wooley returns holding a tray piled sky high
with all the plates of food and shakes that
have been ordered.
WOOLEY
14
Here’s your grub.
Wooley sets the tray down on the table.
WOOLEY
15
And may I say that the chocolate covered
maggots are especially good today.
T-BONE
16
Excellent!
T-BONE reaches for a handful of the chocolate
covered maggots.
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As he lifts them above his mouth, ready to
drop them in, we go very close on the
MAGGOTS. We hear them say CHOCOLATE COVERED
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MAGGOTS
(extremely high pitched)
Nooooooo!Please!
Please noooooooooo! / Don’t
eat me! Please! Don’t eat me! / No please
don’t eat me - I don’t want to die!
PULL BACK to T-BONE about to drop the maggots
into his mouth. His elbow accidentally hits
one of the shakes on the table, sending it
flying right into BILLY, covering him with
milk shake.
BILLY
18
Hey! These clothes don’t get washed for two
more weeks!
T-BONE
19
Whoa..my bad. Total accident.
BILLY’s ticked off.
BILLY
20
Yeah? Well this is an accident too.
Nerrrrh
BILLY puts his elbow hard into a plate of
food, sending it flying at T-BONE. T-BONE is
now covered head to toe in food.
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T-BONE
21
Oh no you didn’t! Oh you know what this means.
EVERYONE
22
Food fight!
A flurry of food being thrown everywhere. Full
fledged food fight.
ON WOOLEY who sees the food fight taking place
in the booth.
WOOLEY
23
Oh no. Not again. (yelling at the kids) Hey,
come on you kids!
WOOLEY moves quickly towards the booth to
break it up. (Remember, he’s a dinosaur so
heavy falling of footsteps)
WOOLEY
24
No food fi.....<shriek/grunt>
WOOLEY is interrupted mid sentence as he slips
on some food laying on the ground and goes
flying into the air.
WOOLEY
25
Eyeeeeeee!
WOOLEY comes down hard on his butt.
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ON the kids. They see that WOOLEY has fallen.
They stop the food fight immediately and run
over to WOOLEY
T-BONE
26
Uh oh! Hey, Wooley! You okay?
WOOLEY
27
Ughh. I think so...
The gang crowds around and helps hoist Wooley
to his feet. This takes some real effort as
WOOLEY is a large dino.
KIDS
28
<lots of grunts and groans as they try to lift
Wooley>
WOOLEY is finally on his feet.
NEDDY
29
Neddy sorry.
EVERYONE
30
Ah, sorry man / We’re sorry Wolley / Yeah.
WOOLEY
31
<Sigh> I’ve told you kids about this. Now you
see what can happen?
T-BONE
32
We’ll never do it again. We promise.
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STELLA
33
And we’ll help you clean up.
WOOLEY
34
Alright then. You kids grab some mops and
start cleaning up this mess. It’s just about
closing time.
Wooley goes to leave but clutches his leg in
pain as he takes a step.
WOOLEY
35
<yelp> Ouch. That smarts.
T-BONE
36
Uh oh. I think Wooley’s hurt.
T-BONE goes over to WOOLEY who is moving
really slowly.
T-BONE
37
Hey, Wooley. Maybe you ought’a sit down.
WOOLEY
38
Nah. I’ll be fine.
WOOLEY puts some weight on his leg and
grimaces.
WOOLEY
39
<Yelp> Ouch. Maybe your right. Ooh!
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WOOLEY sits down on one of his chairs. But
he’s so big, the chair crunches and WOOLEY
ends up falling through the chair onto his
butt again.
The gang helps him up again.
KIDS
40
<more grunts and groans>
STELLA
41
Maybe you should go home and put a glacier
pack on your leg.
T-BONE
42
Yeah. And you probably need to stay off it for
a few days.
WOOLEY
43
<Sigh>. No can do. Who’s gonna take care of
this place if I’m not here?
Nobody says anything for a beat, considering
the problem.
T-BONE
44
I know. We’ll run the diner!
CAMMY
We will?
45
But what about our game tomorrow?
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T-BONE
46
Friends come first. We got Wooley into this
mess and we’re gonna get him out of it.
Agreed?
The gang <nods> in agreement...even Cammy.
WOOLEY doesn’t think its such a great idea.
WOOLEY
47
Errr boy...Err I don’t know. I appreciate the
offer but maybe er...
T-BONE
48
Come on, Wooley. We can do it. We’ve eaten
everything on the menu like a thousand times.
WOOLEY
49
That’s true.
T-BONE
50
Who knows this place better than us?
WOOLEY thinks about it.
WOOLEY
51
Well, I do hate to close up on a
Saturday.(thinks) Maybe it could work.
T-BONE
52
Of course it’ll work! We’ll be great.
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STELLA brings WOOLEY his huge dinosaur coat
and hat and gives them to him.
STELLA
53
Now you go home and stay off that leg. We’ll
take care of everything.
WOOLEY is heading out the door as he puts on
his coat and hat.
WOOLEY
54
Thanks, kids. Oh, one thing. The sign on the
roof.
ON THE WOOLEY’s sign on top of the restaurant.
We see that the stone bolts are lose and the
sign is wobbling a bit. It is not rotating.
WOOLEY (V.O.)
55
It’s getting pretty loose and the repair man
isn’t coming until Monday.
BACK INSIDE THE DINER
WOOLEY
56
So, whatever you do, don’t slam the front
door.
T-BONE
57
Got it. Don’t slam the front door. Now go
home. We’re gonna run this restaurant like
its never been run before!
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WOOLEY is worried.
WOOLEY
58
That’s what I’m afraid of. Now don’t forget,
do not slam this door.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT. WOOLEY MAMMOTH RESTAURANT - THE NEXT
MORNING
Establishing shot - a bright shiny day at THE
WOOLEY MAMMOTH.
DINO CUSTOMER
59 I (O.S.)
Hey waiter! Where’s my birdbrain boiled eggs?
CUT TO:
INT.-THE WOOLEY MAMMOTH-CONT - DAY.
ON an agitated dino-customer seated at a
booth.
DINO CUSTOMER
60 I
(sarcastic)
Sometime this week would be good.
T-BONE comes into scene. He’s holding a tray
piled high with plates, balancing
precariously. He’s wearing an apron.
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He reaches up and grabs a plate of eggs off
the top, placing them in front of the
customer where the plate wobbles.
T-BONE
61
Sorry, mister. The kitchen’s backed up a
little.
The dinosaur takes a bite of the eggs and,
after a beat, spits them out.
DINO CUSTOMER
62 I
<bite> Pahh. Hey. These eggs are ice cold.
T-BONE
63
Uh oh. Sorry about that. I’ll take ‘em back
and get you some new ones.
DINO CUSTOMER
64 I
Ohhh. Never mind. I’ll do it myself. <snort>
The dinosaur customer breathes out a stream of
fire at his eggs.
T-Bone jumps out of the
way so he doesn’t get scorched. When the fire
stops, the eggs are charbroiled.
DINO CUSTOMER
65 I
That’s better. Just the way I like ‘em!
<slurp>
The dino-customer inhales the
eggs...literally.
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ON T-BONE rolling his eyes.
T-BONE
66
Yeah. Whatever.
ON another booth. Another dino-customer
(female) is waiting to place her order.
DINO CUSTOMER
67 2
Is anybody ever going to take my order?
T-BONE
68
Coming! Ah man, the restaurant business is not
as easy as it looks!
CUT TO:
INT, WOOLEY MAMMOTH KITCHEN - MOMENTS LATER DAY
T-Bone enters and slaps down a stack of orders
on the counter.
If possible, the kitchen is
even more chaotic than the dining room.
Neddy, Stella and Cammy run around as pots
made of dinosaur eggshells overheat on the
stove, then <crack>, spilling food onto the
floor.
Nearby, blenders spew seaweed shakes
everywhere - mostly because they’re getting
“blended” by SMALL, OVEREXCITED MONKEYS, who
are shaking them, unsupervised.
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T-BONE
69
You guys okay in here? Cause its getting a
little ugly out there.
ANGLE ON STELLA IN THE KITCHEN - Stella’s
wildly flipping burgers at the grill.
Some
<fly> over her shoulder, some <stick> to the
ceiling.
STELLA
Very few make it back to the grill.
70
(to T-Bone and sarcastic)
Oh yeah..we’re just great...no...problem at
all!
ON NEDDY - trying to make a big vat of
salamander soup...but every time he opens the
lid, salamanders crawl out and <scamper> out
of reach.
ON CAMMY at the deep fryer, desperately trying
to stay on top of the multiple dragonfries
and fried lizard sandwich orders.
CAMMY
71
Now lemee see...that’s five fried lizard
sandwiches, and two orders of dragonfries.
Or was it five dragonfries and two lizards?
Oh no!
T-BONE
72
Whatever it is, just give it to me now!
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Cammy shoves two plates of food in T-Bone’s
hand and he races off.
WIPE TO:
INT. WOOLEY MAMMOTH RESTAURANT - DINING ROOM CONT - DAY
FOLLOW T-BONE as he enters the dining room and
passes a long line of customers waiting to
pay at the cash register, actually a large
abacus made of pebbles, etc.
T-Bone comes up
to Billy who’s taking a very long time to
tally each bill, sliding and re-sliding the
same bead across the abacus.
BILLY
73
Uh, so that’s two paleo pot roasts...at two
pebbles each...so your total is...eerrr wait,
I need to start over.
T-BONE
74
Umm think you can pick up the pace a little,
Billy?
BILLY glares at T-BONE.
BILLY
75
You wanna do it?
T-BONE
76
Uh no no..I’m good. Keep up the good...
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T-BONE’s POV as he takes in the now huge line
of dinosaurs and kids waiting to pay their
bills.
T-BONE
77
...work. <gulp>
T-BONE moves on. We stay with BILLY a bit as
he tries to work the abacus.
BILLY
78
Now lemme see...where was I. Uh, two pebbles
plus....
On the long line of customers as their faces
simmer with anger.
ON DINO CUSTOMER ONE
DINO CUSTOMER
79 I
Hey! What do I gotta do to get a check around
here?
ON A VERY WORRIED T-BONE.
T-BONE
80
Oohh..this is not good.
DISSOLVE TO:
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INT. WOOLEY MAMMOTH RESTAURANT - NIGHT
The last customer is going out the door.
T-BONE
81
Thanks for coming and come again soon.
CUSTOMER 3 - (reuse a model of an existing
dino redressed) The customer obviously wasn’t
happy.
DINO CUSTOMER
82 3
(indignant)
Like that’ll ever happen!
T-BONE closes the door carefully behind the
exited customer and turns to look at the rest
of the kids who are in various states of
destruction. Their clothing is askew, CAMMY
is sleeping, tongues are hanging out. They
are a mess.
NEDDY
83
Neddy never have such hard day!
ON CAMMY
CAMMY
84
<snoring loudly>
T-BONE shakes CAMMY to wake her up.
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T-BONE
85
Wake up Cammy. Time to go home.
CAMMY wakes with a start.
CAMMY
86
Wha...Three fried ice age igloos, hold the
cherry..
T-BONE
87
Easy Cammy. We’re closed for the day.
CAMMY looks around and realizes she’s been
asleep.
CAMMY
88
Ughh thank goodness. I don’t ever want to do
that again. I don’t know how Wooley does it.
STELLA
89
He is pretty amazing. Guess we kind of take
him for granted.
NEDDY
90
<Big yawn> Neddy go home now. Sleep for month.
T-BONE
91
Yeah. Let’s all go home. I’ll get the lights.
As T-BONE turns off the lights. EVERYTHING
GOES DARK. We hear <the door open> and some
ambient street light comes in.
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Enough to show our characters is shadow as
they head out the door.
STELLA (V.O.)
92
Remember, don’t slam the....
We hear the door <SLAM>
STELLA (V.O.)
93
..door?
We hear <nasty, creaking, breaking sfx as the
sign is separating from the roof.>
T-BONE (V.O.)
94
Uh...oh.
CUT TO:
EXT. WOOLEY MAMMOTH RESTAURANT - CONTINUOUS NIGHT
ON the SIGN ON THE ROOF as it breaks off and
begins tumbling down to the ground, ending
with a <smash> as it hits the ground.
ON THE KIDS looking at the destroyed sign on
the ground with their mouths wide open and,
for a beat, in utter silence. Finally...
T-BONE
95
This is not good.
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STELLA
96
What are we going to tell Wooley?
BILLY
97
Errr I’d go with earthquake.
Everyone looks at BILLY with annoyance.
BILLY
98
What? Wha’d I say?
STELLA
99
We are not gonna to lie to Wooley. We’ll just
have to give him our allowances to pay for
the sign.
CAMMY
100
Yeah...for like the next fifty years.
ON NEDDY who is thinking hard.
NEDDY
101
Hmmm. Maybe Neddy fix.
T-BONE
102
Fix it? How are you gonna do that?
NEDDY
103
Neddy use pulley system. Lift sign back to
roof.
CAMMY
104
Pulley system? What’s that?
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NEDDY
105
Neddy not sure. Neddy go home now and invent
it.
T-BONE
106
Well, let’s hope Neddy can pull it
off...er...I mean up! Let’s all be back here
at 7am pronto so we can get to work.
CROSS FADE
EXT. WOOLEY MAMMOTH RESTAURANT - MORNING
Match to the previous scene only now the sun
is up as the kids arrive. NEDDY is holding
blueprints.
T-BONE
107
So...er what’re we gonna do now?
NEDDY lays the blueprint down. The drawing is
very primitive and shows the sign being
hoisted up by a pulley.
NEDDY
108
Neddy bring plan.
BILLY picks up the blueprint and turns it in
all directions as he tries to make sense of
it.
BILLY
109
Uh...I don’t get it.
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NEDDY turns the blueprint in BILLY’s hands.
NEDDY
110
It help if you look at it right side up.
NEDDY stares.
BILLY
111
Naaa..I still don’t get it.
NEDDY shakes his head.
NEDDY
112
Huhhh. Neddy bring tools. We get to work now.
MONTAGE
1. T-BONE is in a tree tying a long vine to a
sturdy tree branch. He pulls the knot hard,
making sure it is tight. HE then takes the
other end and swings down to the ground where
the kids are, Tarzan style. As he is touching
down on the ground, his foot trips on a rock
and he goes comedically tumbling onto his
back. From T-BONE’s POV we see the rest of
the kids looking down over him, shaking their
heads “no” as if to say T-BONE is a real
bonehead!
2. NEDDY pulls the vine over a rough, stone
pulley wheel.
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3. All the kids are pulling hard on the vine
as it pulls the sign up into the air.
4. On the sign as it hovers over the roof,
ready to be set down.
5. ON the kids who are straining hard to hold
the sign in place. On their faces which are
pouring out sweat. Then on someone’s hands as
the vine begins to slip thru. As the vine
picks up speed slipping thru all the kids’
hands, they react.
ALL THE KIDS
113
Arghhhhhhhh! <Grunts>
ON the roof. We see the vine spin out of
control. The sign hangs suspended in air for
a moment, no longer held by the tension of
the vine/pulley system. It falls and lands
with a <loud thud> on to the roof.
ON the kids as they hold their breath waiting
to see what will happen.
ON the sign - not moving...staying nice in
place.
ON the kids realizing its okay.
ALL THE KIDS
114
<exhaling...a collective sigh of relief> Phew!
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WOOLEY (O.S.)
115
Hey..what are you kids doing here?
ON WOOLEY as he approaches the kids, walking
normally.
WOOLEY
116
Didn’t I tell ya we aren’t open on Sunday?
T-BONE
117
(vamping)
Er...yeah sure, Wooley. We just wanted to
check and make sure the place was okay.
WOOLEY
118
No kidding. That’s pretty responsible of you.
Everything go smoothly?
The kids all looking up at the sky as they
shuffle their feet, not sure they want to
answer.
T-BONE
119
Uh...sure Wooley. Smooth as silk.
WOOLEY looks up at the sign. It’s rotating on
top of the roof, good as new.
WOOLEY
120
Hey! Would you get a look at that! The sign’s
working! I wonder how that happened?
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NEDDY
121
Uh...Neddy fix. Save Wooley some money.
WOOLEY
122
So you ran the restaurant and fixed the sign?
<laugh> Boy, you kids are r-r-really
something.
STELLA
123
Looks like your leg is better, Wooley.
WOOLEY
124
Oooh yeah. Stayed off it for a day and now
it’s good as new.
T-BONE
125
Well, then I guess the restaurant’s all your’s
again.
WOOLEY
126
Ahhh can’t thank you kids enough. And now that
I know you can do such a great job running
the place, I may just take that vacation I’ve
been thinking about for the last five hundred
years.
The kids freak out at the idea.
ALL THE KIDS
127
<Gasp> / Oh no! / not a good idea / no way.
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T-BONE
128
Er Sorry Wooley, but I think our schedules are
pretty booked up for the next...umm, wow, umm
...fifteen years.
STELLA
129
Yeah..you know..school...band
practice...growing up.
T-BONE
130
Urrr right. In fact, we gotta get going right
now.
The kids take off in a hurry.
ALL THE KIDS
131
See ya Wooley/ Bye! / Er yeah! /hasta
perodactyl pasta.
WOOLEY watches them go then, shrugs his
shoulders then opens the door to the diner,
steps in and closes the door behind him
<hard>.
The camera pans up to the sign on the roof. We
see it shake just a little bit, one stone
bolt pulling up a bit from the roof....
WOOLEY (V.O.)
132
Huhh. Place looks good. And to think I didn’t
trust those kids. Hahaha.
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On that we pull back to see the sign on the
roof completely break away and crash to the
ground.
As the sign hits the ground it fills the
screen with dust which turns to black as we FADE OUT TO BLACK.
END OF EPISODE
EPILOGUE - music/band segment (45 SECOND
SONG).
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